text: Other distinguished alumni and former staff from the school of Chemistry include:
  * Melvin Calvin, worked in Manchester from 1935 to 1937, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1961
  * Michael Polanyi, Professor of Chemistry
  * Arthur Harden, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929
  * Norman Haworth, awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1937
  * George de Hevesy, awarded the  Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1943
  * James Lovelock FRS, undergraduate in Chemistry, graduating in 1941
  * John Charles Polanyi, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986
  * Robert Robinson awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1947
  * Ernest Rutherford, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908
  * Michael Smith, completed PhD in Manchester, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1993
  * Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1957
  See also Notable chemists (and biologists) at the University of Manchester